Sunrise, Beside the Atlantic Ocean

Issue 13 | Winter 2024 |

 

The heaving swell sensed
again. It covers half my
line-of-sight.

A rising
crowns like a child
from a nursery
of light

a self-sufficient bright cave—
its porches, its mansions
all defy.

White caps flash wide
close-in and away
corralled, confined

a singular sea with many names
shifts, returns;
a sculptor sighs.

The sky gradates to edges.
Oceans have been filled again,
breathing through
my eyes.